Monday, June 04, 2007

News

Britt did stitches in a head injury from a motorbike this morning - she has seen over 50 suture patients now - we're hoping for calm & quiet while she is in Florida this weekend

Troy and Noah have gone to Port today to get some supplies

We STILL know nothing concrete about baby Emmanuel

86 Pastors came to training on Saturday - Troy wants to write about this when time allows

The sutures are coming out of the amputated toe tomorrow

There seems to be more Malaria all of a sudden - a few of our employees and their children are currently very sick, we're 98% sure that is what Britt had last week - she finally feels normal again, thanks for praying for her

Paige claims to have seen five or six rats in church last night. This is the reason I cannot attend church. ;) Paige thinks it is funny. She also thinks bats and spiders are "no big thing." She may have been switched at birth.

Pregnancy is going great - baby moves a lot and I feel really good most days -my fantasy of sitting in an ice-cold-air-conditioned theater with a honkin tub of buttery popcorn and a 68 oz. Dr. Pepper gets me through many-a-hot-day

Regarding getting back to MN in 12 weeks - We picked the date and booked flights and rented a van to drive from Florida to MN in late August - a few are staying in Haiti until Sept 26th - we're at four months until delivery day - not.ready.yet. must. breathe. must. be. calm.need.more.time........

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Who we are...

To Reach Us: Livesayfamily@gmail.com - We live, learn, love, & work and sometimes go slowly crazy in Port au Prince, Haiti. In the 13+ years we've been here, one thing we've learned: God is not made manifest in our ability to "fix" or heal, but in our need to be healed. Recognizing this weakness leaves us in a position of having little to offer. It reveals our own need to be restored to wholeness. We are not fixers of people or countries or things. We are here trying to extend empathy, love and grace to others, the way it has been extended to us.

May God bless us with discomfort at easy answers, half-truths, and superficial relationships - so that we may live deep within our hearts. May God bless us with anger at injustice, oppression, and exploitation of people - so that we may work for justice, freedom, and peace. May God bless us with tears to shed for those who suffer pain, rejection, hunger, and war - so that we may reach out our hand to comfort them and to turn their pain into joy. And may God bless us with enough foolishness to believe that we can make a difference in the world - so that we can do what others claim cannot be done, to bring justice and kindness to all our children and the poor. Amen. (Franciscan Benediction)

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